Mit einem Nullwachstum im Jahr 2015 hat Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) den Abstand zur deutschlandweiten BIP-Wachstumsrate gegenüber den vorherigen Jahren noch einmal vergrößert. Bei Wachstumstreibern wie Investitionen und Ausgaben für Forschung hinkt NRW deutlich hinter den anderen...

This paper estimates a panel model in which the relationship between inequality and gross domestic product per capita growth depends on countries' initial incomes. Estimates of the model show that the relationship between inequality and gross domestic product per capita growth is significantly...

This paper analyses the pre-tax inequality in the income that individuals actually receive in Brazil and the role of the personal income tax in regulating these incomes. We produce a new distributional series of fiscal income, consistently combining annual and nationally representative household...